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Meditation in Motion for a Busy Modern World
Mindful on the Go: Meditation Techniques for Today?s Modern Lifestyles It?s no secret that the pace of modern life is speeding up. Recent anthropological studies have concluded that, in many pre-agrarian societies, people worked as little as four hours per day, and...
Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery: What Is Mindfulness?
What is Mindfulness? West Coast RC offers a mixture of traditional and holistic therapies for the treatment of substance abuse disorders. One of the common points between every form of treatment, however, is a strong basis in certain ancient Eastern philosophies....
Individual Therapy in Mindfulness-based Addiction Recovery
A Place for Everyone: Individual Therapy in Holistic Addiction Recovery Traditional environments for addiction treatment, such as 12-step programs and intensive inpatient therapy, are historically notorious for having high relapse rates. Within such settings,...
Counseling As a Sounding Board
Effective Counseling Provides a Sounding Board for Personal Progress It?s no secret that many people are uncomfortable with the idea of sharing their deeper thoughts with another. It taps into a variety of fundamental human anxieties: the fear of being wrong, on a...
Transition and Recovery Planning
Having an Addiction Recovery Plan Addiction recovery is often described as a road, or sometimes as a path. It is, unquestionably, a journey, one that leads to a lifestyle with reduced stress factors and improved overall health. This may represent a return to a...
Meeting Individual Needs with Gender Responsive Therapy
Gender Responsive Therapy Meets Individual Recovery Needs Gender, as a concept, incorporates a great deal more than a person's biology (although biology does play a role in affecting the process of addiction recovery, due to substances affecting men's and women's...
Family Therapy for Addiction Recovery Support
All You Need is Love: Family Therapy West Coast Recovery Centers offers traditional and holistic approaches to the treatment of addiction disorder. With some of the therapies made available, these two approaches are combined in innovative ways, as with WCRC's approach...
Managing Addiction through Creative Expression
One of the primary concepts behind any form of treatment for addiction disorder is the importance of learning how to express one's psychological needs, sometimes in unconventional ways. This applies to both the traditional and the holistic approaches in modern...
Personal Empowerment through Mindful Living
?From a small seed, a mighty tree may grow.? ?Aeschylus People build things. It's what we do; it's one of our most primal expressions of personal identity. Throughout the history of human civilization, we have grown by building higher and expanding our borders. Those...
Approaching Addiction Recovery through EMDR
Limiting beliefs, negative self-image, and other underlying contributors to addiction and substance abuse frequently have their own contributing factors. Many mental and emotional challenges to a healthy, intentional perspective are themselves symptoms of other...